Louisiana bays, bayous vanish from nautical maps

9:28 PM,
Feb. 13, 2014

Written by

Rick Jervis
Gannett

Flip Tayamen has seen the wetlands of his childhood disintegrate and vanish.

Still, he was stunned to hear that those bays and bayous, with names like Yellow Cotton Bay and Dry Cypress Bayou that offered him nets full of shrimp and shelter from storms, would no longer appear on maps.

"It's really painful," Tayamen, 60, a shrimper in lower Plaquemines Parish, 40 miles south of New Orleans. "You don't know where you're going anymore. You don't know which way to point." ...